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Translation of bigamy in Spanish:

bigamy

bigamia, n.

Pronunciation /ˈbɪɡəmi//ˈbɪɡəmi/

noun

1

bigamia feminine

She had been sentenced at Blackpool Magistrates' Court for an offence of bigamy committed in April 2002, which she admitted.

During his days in court, the criminal past of the self-confessed liar and philanderer emerged, with offences of bigamy, theft, fraud and criminal damage, and a faked suicide among two changes of identity.

When she confronted him, ‘He told [her] that he was getting a pension and that he would give her one half of what he Recieved if she would not have him arrested for bigamy.’

For example, Denise Robins, a wildly successful Mills & Boon star of the 1930s, wrote of rape, abduction, bigamy, suicide, illegitimacy and divorce.

Sharpe on the other hand was recorded as marrying legally in November 1990 before committing her first offence of bigamy the following May.

Adultery, bigamy, and desertion were acceptable legal grounds.

Within a year the resulting notoriety provoked the newly crowned James I to promulgate an Act that made bigamy a felony.

In July, 1968, he appeared in court for bigamy, larceny and false pretences, with 116 offences considered, and was sentenced to two years jail, suspended for three years.

Then in December 1999 the district attorney's office charged him with bigamy because he was legally married to another woman.

In fact, laws against bigamy, adultery, and adult incest might be defended in the interest of preventing harm to others.

Well, for instance, bigamy is a federal offence, and I have little doubt that the Commonwealth could prohibit people calling themselves married.

Of course, Trudy turns to old reliable Norval, but even he's smart enough to realize it would be bigamy for her to marry again.

Police issued an arrest warrant for bigamy and John, who now lives on the Isle of Man, turned himself in last week.

A man was charged with bigamy for being married to 17 wives.

For instance, is a marriage subsequent to a civil union bigamy?

But someone blew the whistle and Michael was arrested for bigamy and hauled before the courts.

In 1882 Congress passed a law making bigamy a federal crime.

Federal and state laws against bigamy and polygamy reflect that tradition.

But marriage itself is largely a creature of legal rules precluding divorce and prohibiting bigamy.

She wanted adequate safeguards against dowry, bigamy, adultery, and apostasy in the new legislation.